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Unit 26: Distance Education :Concept, Need and Modes of Distance Education)

Its characteristics and used medias are described in Table 3, below. Notes
Table 3. Characteristics and Medias used in the Network Interaction Mode

Network Mode
Characteristics Pedagogical conception Medias
Many-to-many Dialogic knowledge Printed media
interaction collective building Video tapes
Synchronous and Internet
asynchronous Telephone
communication Television
Intense collective Radio
interaction Internet
Decentralization Tele and video conference
Non-personalization Telephone (fixed and mobile)
Nonexistent collective Fax
interaction Postal services,
Others

26.5 Some well Known open Universities of the India

1. United Kingdom Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Kenyes,MK7 6 AA, United
Kingdom (1969).
2. Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain (1972).
3. Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan (1974)
4. Everyman’s University, Israel (1974).
5. Fern Universitat, Fleyer Strasse 204, D 5800 Hagen, West-Germany (1974).
6. Athabasca University, Box 10,000, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada, TOG 2RO(1975).
7. Universidad Estatal a Distancia, Costa Rica (1977).
8. Universidad Nacional Abierta, Venezuela (1977).
9. Central Radio and Television University, Beijing, China (1978).
10. Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, 9/9 M009 Tambo Bangpood, Nonthaburi-
11120 Bangkok, Thailand (1978). etc.
Self Assessment
3. State whether the following statements one ‘Ture’ or ‘False’:
(i) The communication occurs through the two basic mediations the technological and the
human mediation.
(ii) The informational flow occurs in several directions from the institution to a collective
of students, from the students to institution.
(iii) The multi direction flows concern the circuits of circulation and diffusion of information
necessary for the process development.
(iv) The unidirectional flow can be associated to correspondence teaching, through the postal
service or the internet.

26.6 Summary
• Distance education as the name indicates is a form of education in which there is usually
a long distance between the learner and the teacher.

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